From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 30 00:55:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA24735 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA24720 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA25502; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:25:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA07910; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:25:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980730172533.G7830@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:25:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Velte , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: datapro market penetration study References: <01bdbb46$d6e86060$01d0ae8c@lanfill.lanminds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01bdbb46$d6e86060$01d0ae8c@lanfill.lanminds.com>; from Jack Velte on Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 04:15:56PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 29 July 1998 at 16:15:56 -0700, Jack Velte wrote: > http://www.redhat.com/redhat/datapro.html > > Datapro Study > > According to a new Datapro study Linux is the only operating system except > Windows NT that is growing in corporate markets. > > 1. Growth of Operating Systems > > This chart depicts the growth of various operating systems from 1996 to > 1997. The data represents the percentage growth in the number of large > enterprises who are using the various operating systems. Most studies have > focused on the total number of Linux installations and show that Linux has > more than doubled in the past year. The Datapro study takes a different > approach and reveals that the total number of enterprises using Linux has > increased by 27%! > > [``BSD'', according to this chart, suffered an about 60% decrease in growth > from 96 to 97.] This rather gives the lie on its accuracy, doesn't it? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message